The History Collective

Dr. Robyn Atcheson has a special evening edition of her ever popular "Famine and Fever in Friar's Bush" tour coming up, but there are only a handful of tickets left! Grab one here: https://shorturl.at/jfSxe

For many during the Hungry 1840s, free soup rations were all that kept them alive. Soup kitchens were set up all over Ireland by churches, charities and through official government schemes. Including in Belfast.
Many families relied on this soup in order to survive.
In Belfast, the first soup kitchen to help those struggling to afford and access food was started by the people themselves, specifically the Catholic butchers of Hercules Street. They started making soup using bone broth & whatever vegetables they could scrounge & giving this out to those in need several months before the charitable middle classes organised a soup kitchen committee which would eventually take over this work.

If you'd like to hear more about Belfast's response to the Great Hunger & its medical history, join me next Friday night for Famine and Fever in Friar's Bush Graveyard.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990020658359?aff=oddtdtcreator

A few action shots from Michael Burns' tour of Comber's WW2 war history on the 30th May - his first outing as a member of ! The feedback on this tour was 100% "excellent" with every guest awarding the highest possible score!

We were delighted to be featured in Newtownards Chronicle last week about our upcoming tours this Saturday 30th May.
There is still time to book onto our two amazing walking tours looking at medical history and the Second World War in Comber. If you use the promo code CHRONICLE at checkout, you'll get 15% off.
Tickets here https://bit.ly/4fajf7i

The Collective is very pleased to announce we are now a member of the Federation for Ulster Local Studies The Federation promotes the study and recording of the history, antiquities and folk-life of Ulster and supports the 100+ historic societies province wide.

Full page in the Newtownards Chronicle this week about the events at the weekend! There's still time to grab tickets, and if you use code CHRONICLE at checkout, you'll get 15% off. It looks like the weather will be great too! Get your tickets on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-history-collective-121326112131